Vulgar words in In Defense of Women (Page 1)

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 78   ~   ~   ~

The Maternal Instinct A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 376   ~   ~   ~

Even her alleged superior endurance, as Havelock Ellis has demonstrated in "Man and Woman," is almost wholly mythical; she cannot, in point of fact, stand nearly so much hardship as aman can stand, and so the law, usually an ass, exhibits an unaccustomed accuracy of observation in its assumption that, whenever husband and wife are exposed alike to fatal suffering, say in a shipwreck, the wife dies first.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 413   ~   ~   ~

It must be obvious to even so pathetic an ass as a university professor of history that very few of the genuinely first-rate men of the race have been, wholly civilized, in the sense that the term is employed in newspapers and in the pulpit.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 907   ~   ~   ~

One result is the notorious villainousness of American cookery--a villainousness so painful to a cultured uvula that a French hack-driver, if his wife set its masterpieces before him, would brain her with his linoleum hat.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,012   ~   ~   ~

Our politics thus degenerates into a mere pursuit of hobgoblins; the male voter, a coward as well as an ass, is forever taking fright at a new one and electing some mountebank to lay it.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,262   ~   ~   ~

In the course of a life largely devoted to the study of pietistic phenomena, I have never met a single woman who cared an authentic damn for the actual heathen.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,276   ~   ~   ~

This inclination toward beauty, of course, is dismissed by the average male blockhead as no more than a feeble sentimentality.

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